International Booker Prize 2024: Jenny Erpenbeck becomes first German writer to win £50,000 award
Author shares prize for Kairos, her novel about lovers in 1980s East Berlin, with its translator, Michael Hofmann
International Booker Prize
International Booker Prize shortlist: Europe and South America dominate
Independent presses continue to dominate, with five of six titles on the shortlist
International Booker Prize 2024 longlist announced: 13 translated novels feature
Nominated books include Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare and The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
‘The Berlin Wall was there, but I didn’t feel as if I was in a cell. I also felt free’
In Kairos, her new novel, Jenny Erpenbeck sets out to capture how it really felt to grow up in East Germany
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